Christian Democratic Party of El Salvador

The Christian Democratic Party (PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in El Salvador that was founded in 1960. The party was founded as the main center-left party of El Salvador, opposing the center-right Party of National Conciliation. With the rise of socialist and communist parties in the country, the PDC's views moved towards centrism. Many left-leaning PDC leaders were killed by governmental death squads or disappeared, and the PDC moved towards the right as a result. The rise of the Nationalist Republican Alliance and the rival FMLN led to the decline of the PDC, which held only 1/84 Legislative Assembly seats, 6/262 mayoral seats, and 1/20 Central American Parliament seats in 2017.